Family members waited anxiously at the Cincinnati International Airport for flights returning from Boston Monday night. Tim Mohr was living his dream when he ran in the Boston Marathon with his parents there to support him.

"A little somber to finish up to go from a feeling of joy and happiness of accomplishing a life goal, to thinking of those families and experiencing that," said Mohr, who finished about a half-hour before the bomb blasts.

Mohr's parents watched the race from near the finish line, but shortly after he completed the race, they were preparing to fly home.

"Two girls got out of the came we were getting into, and she was just crying, and she told us what happened ... all of the sudden, our phones lit up," said Mohr's mother, Nancy Mohr.

Kelly Schoenfeld was on the same flight as the Mohrs. She also ran the marathon, and was on the subway en route to the airport when the explosions happened.

"The subway stopped. We waited about 10 minutes, then they took us to the closest subway stop and then evacuated the whole subway," she said. "That's how we found out what was going on."

"Lot of care messages," Tim Mohr said. "Lots of emails and Facebook messages. It's good to be home -- it is."

"It's a relief to be home," Schoenfeld said.

Schoenfeld said a couple of her friends were still running as she left for the airport. Cellphone lines were jammed, but she managed to get a text message from them that said they were OK.

Previous Flying Pig Marathon winner Alison Delgado told GameDay Communication's Betsy Ross that she was fine, and that she was eating with her family about a half-mile from the finish line when the blast happened.

Jim Wu, from Cincinnati, said he was eating nearby when the blasts happened.

"The first explosion went off, didn't think anything of it. It sounded like a cannon or something. I didn't pay too much attention to it. But when the second explosion went off, people started screaming. There was glass all over the place. People were running," he said.

Wu said he went to his hotel room, which overlooked the finish line.

"It looked pretty bad on the sidewalk. It was covered in blood. There were bodies and probably some limbs or something. At that point, the hotel staff asked us to evacuate," he said.

"We definitely heard a lot of sirens, saw a lot of ambulances, a great number of police cars and then actually policemen running up the street to get to the scene. They actually already had a lot of police at the scene because it's a pretty secure area to start with," he said.

Former Second District Rep. Jean Schmidt said she was waiting at the finish line for her sister to finish. She said she'd never been this frightened, but that the police and fire response was very good.

"I heard this explosion, and then I looked up and saw another one that was much closer, and I just started to run," she said. "It is amazing how fast you can run after 26 miles when you are scared to death."

"I was never more afraid in my life, because as the second one went off, I didn't know if there would be any more and if they were in a cascade," she said.

Schmidt asked people to pray for the victims, noting they could have easily included herself, her sister or her friends.

"This has forever changed Boston, and it has forever changed their lives, more importantly, all of these families. But for the grace of God, it could have been me. It could have been my sister. It could have been my cousin. It could have been my friend, Heather, that I run with every Sunday. We are all safe, but 23 people, plus two dead, are not," she said.

The Flying Pig Marathon released a statement that read: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the staff and participants of the Boston Marathon after today’s incident near the finish line. We are closely following the situation with our local police and fire leadership to understand the circumstances of today’s events and will continue to do so as information is released.”

"You don't count on something like this. You hope and pray that something like this would never occur. And yet we don't take for granted. So I'd say, there's going to be a lot of heightened security," organizer Iris Simpson-Bush said.

The Cincinnati Reds also released a statement:"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and friends affected by this afternoon's events in Boston. While we won't comment specifically on security procedures at Great American Ball Park, we can assure our fans that their safety always has been and always will be the number one priority of our staff and local law enforcement agencies. We encourage all of our employees and fans to continue to focus on their surroundings and to notify our security staff if they feel the need to do so."

To see who was entered in the marathon, go here and put in a city and state. To see who has finished the race, go here.

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